Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California

How does Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California compare with other distribution center buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 3,121 distribution center buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California's ENERGY STAR score of 1 compares with an average of 67 across the 2,485 that report a score; it scores higher than 0% of them and lower than 96%. Its site EUI of 112.2 kBtu/ft² is about 467% above the average of 19.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 6.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 402% above the group average of 1.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 63,520 sq ft, it is about 73% below the average floor area of 238,298 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1973, 21 years earlier than the group's average year built (1994). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 4,082 distribution center buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 24.2 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 1 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: 1 is the bottom of the scale. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 1 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 74 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California's 112.2 kBtu/ft² across 63,520 sq ft works out to about 7.1 billion Btu (2,089 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 803,429 kWh of electricity and 43,824 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California to report its energy use?

Ralp - Sna001 - 2990 Airway Ave, Costa Mesa, California reports under AB 802 (Public Resources Code §25402.10), the legal basis of California's Building Energy Benchmarking Program (statewide), which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record california:26119378:2024). AB 802 requires every California commercial building over 50,000 sq ft to report energy use to the CEC annually; the CEC publicly discloses the results statewide.